עֲמַר
wool
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6015 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
עמר — transliterated ʻămar — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “wool.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). Found nowhere else but Daniel 7:9. Sharing its root, it stands alongside צמר, צמרת and צמרים. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6015 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Wool 1×
- American Standard Version: Wool 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wool 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was like 1×, Wool 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6015 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6015 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6015 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6015 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- wool
Word origin
עֲמַר n.m. wool;—abs. Dn 7:9.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צמר (tsemer) (H6785) — wool.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָמַר
- 1. to be thick, tufty.—Denom. עָמִיר.
- 2. (cmp. חָמַר I) to heap up, pile. Ukts. II, 5 והבצלים שעֲמָרָן, Var. for שחמרן.—Denom. עוֹמֶר.
- (denom. of עוֹמֶר) to bind and pile sheaves; to harvest. Peah V, 8 המְעַמֵּר וכ׳, v. כּוֹבְעָה, a. חֲרָרָה. Y. Ber. IX, 13ᶜ top חרש זרע … קצר עי׳ וכ׳ he ploughed, he sowed …, he cut, piled up, threshed &c.; Bab. Ber. 58ᵃ עמר. Sabb. VII, 2. Y. Peah IV, 18ᵈ bot. בקוצר שורה ומעמר שורה when he cuts a row and puts it up in sheaves at a time; a. fr.
- (b. h.) (with ב) to make one’s self the master of; to make use of a person as a servant. Snh. XI, 1 (85ᵇ) (expl. Deut. XXIV, 7) אינו חייב עד שיכניסנו לרשותו he is not guilty of abduction, unless he brought the person to his own grounds; (oth. opin.) עד … וישתמש בו unless he brought the person to his own grounds and made use of him; Sifré Deut. 273. e.g. Deuteronomy 24:7
עֲמַר I
- , Pa. עַמֵּר ch. as preced. Pi. Targ. Ps. CXXIX, 7.
עֲמַר II
- (Syr. עמר P. Sm. 2918; Arab. ʿamar; cmp. עמד) to stay, dwell. Targ. Prov. XXX, 28 עָמְרָא (ed. Lag. a. oth. עמדא). Ib. XXV, 24 מעמר ed. Lag. (ed. Wil. מֶעְמַד).
עֹמֶר
- , pl. עְמָרִים, v. עוֹמֶר.
עֲמַר III
- (עמר I, cmp. עָמִיר a. אִימַּר) = h. צֶמֶר, wool. Targ. Ps. XXXIX, 12, v. גַּרְדֵּם. Targ. Deut. XXII, 11. Targ. Lev. XIII, 48; a. fr.—Ḥag. 15ᵇ, v. יוֹרֶה II. B. Bath. 74ᵃ, a. e. גבבא דע׳, v. גְּבָבָא. Yoma 71ᵇ; Zeb. 18ᵇ; a. fr.—גופנא(ד) ע׳ cotton, v. גּוּפְנָא.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6015, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
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People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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